Quotes About Career

Right now I'm trying to figure out what I'm gonna do, 'cause I don't want to sit around on my backside all day. If I'm gonna do that I'll be a newspaper reporter.

A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies.

When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.

I'm 31 years old and I want to be part of a championship team before my career is over.

I can't believe how blessed I am! I'm married to the most wonderful man, Gene Raymond, whom I'm deeply in love with, and, my career is right where I want it to be. I can live like this forever!

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

I'm an actor for hire. It's important not to forget that you're disposable....When you have that mentality, you fight for the jobs you want.

I wouldnt mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly dont want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean.

If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn't be that, I'd want to be a superhero.

I went to Princeton High School, when I was very serious about being an artist. I was in a theatre family but I didn't want to become an actor.

I no longer look at my life and times in the motion picture industry as my career. I just look at it now as something I like and want to do.

You can divide our industry into two kinds of people: those who want to go work for a company to make it successful, and those who want to go work for a successful company.

No-one works for money alone and tapping into what people want from their careers and what they have to offer is essential.

When asked why a man sixty-nine years old, who had spent most of his life manufacturing and selling small household appliances, should suddenly at the end of his career fling himself into the construction of a major building, Mr. Clark replied, "To make money.

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The best junior officers with at least three years' service could apply for a "high potentials" course which would lead to entry into the General Staff.

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

All I wanted was a job like a book so good I'd be finishing it for the rest of my life.

I never feel so utterly fraudulent as when I review a movie whose charms impress all in the world and I simply do not get it. The other variant is that I love something the world disdains. This has had severe career consequences: I am still famous - or notorious - in certain quarters where I am recalled as the man who liked 'Hudson Hawk.'

Looking as sharp as Sweeney Todd's razor, Roger struck a formidable figure as he donned his smart clothes and tie. At times, he would often talk of the night of his career when he fought John Conteh. He took the defeat of that match very personally and would often punch out a drunk who scoffed at his midlands accent and his past pride and glory.

Danielson can kiss my big hairy ass. The guy not only destroyed your career, he locked you up in a loony bin for three months. He should be publicly apologizing to you, not leading a mission. This is strictly damage control.

In my wildest dreams I never thought - well, I never thought I'd work.

So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.

My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor.